Regarding the bid-rigging case related to the bidding for work related to the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic test competitions, Governor Koike of Tokyo asked outside experts to make sure that there were no problems with the contract procedures, so as not to interfere with the investigation. I showed my intention to proceed with the investigation.
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's Special Investigation Department arrested the former deputy director of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee on suspicion of illegally coordinating orders for bidding for work related to the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic test competitions, on suspicion of violating the Antimonopoly Act. it was done.
Regarding this collusion case, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government began investigating whether there were any problems with the contract procedures from November last year, and from this month, under the supervision of external experts such as certified public accountants, other than the Tokyo officials dispatched to the Organizing Committee. We are also planning to conduct interviews.
Regarding this, Governor Koike said at a press conference on the 10th, ``We are proceeding with an investigation centered on external experts, and we would like to proceed while devising measures so as not to hinder the investigation.''
In December last year, the Tokyo metropolitan government published an interim summary of the survey, stating that the contract procedures were "mainly carried out according to the rules."